"We tend to want our public officials, especially our president, to espouse some religion, but we seem to want it the way that children want their parents to tell them that a trip to the dentist will not hurt a bit. It is not the truth of the claim but the claim itself we find comforting.
-- William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law Stephen Carter, "Candidates Are Being More Open About Their Religious Beliefs," Knight Ridder Washington Bureau, Sept. 22, 2000.
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"[For] much of the 19th and 20th centuries, the emphasis at Yale was on working together in groups. There was the ideal of an undefeated football team, a charity drive, the junior prom committee -- a huge emphasis on leadership in groups. Harvard's spirit was much more conducive to the individual intellectual achievement. You could be a hermit and hide in the library."
-- Larned Professor Emeritus of History Gaddis Smith, "The Ruling Class," The Los Angeles Times, Oct. 4, 2000.
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"[Corporate executives] understand that big global corporations are going to have to behave differently if they want to build a reputation that enhances their brand and makes them attractive not just to customers but to the best workers."
-- Dean of the School of Management Jeffrey Garten, "A New Politics Born of Globalization," The Washington Post, Oct. 1, 2000.
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"This just seems so uninspired."
-- Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art Vincent Scully about the design of the proposed National World War II Memorial, "Monumental Error," The New Republic Online, Sept. 25, 2000.
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"Ask a general question about the economic outlook and people are very positive. But anxieties are often relative. We don't have much community feeling, and people are more anxious about being left out. You hear these stories about young people making millions on a dot-com, and you feel your own sense of self-worth pass you by."
-- Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics Robert Shiller, "Don't Worry. Be Happy," Forbes, Oct. 9, 2000.
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"[The judge in the Wen Ho Lee case] was obliged to tell prosecutors, 'Show me the money,' and should not have taken their word for it."
-- Southmayd Professor of Law Akhil Amar, "Blame Abounds in 'Botched' Spy Case," The Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 28, 2000.
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"[Cuban poet Heberto Padilla] will be forever known as the first poet to have the stature and courage to object to the repression of Fidel Castro's regime."
-- Sterling Professor of Comparative & Hispanic Literature Roberto González Echevarría, "Heberto Padilla, 68, Cuban Poet, Is Dead," The New York Times, Sept. 28, 2000.
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"The problem with the Business Roundtable is that it has defined itself as little more than a traditional lobbying organization -- the kind that could have existed 50 years ago. Implicit in its work is an obsession with what government should and should not do to the exclusion of something just as important: what companies ought to be doing for society at large."
-- Dean of the School of Management Jeffrey Garten in his article, "Time For a Shakeup at the Business Roundtable," Business Week, Oct. 9, 2000.
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"You're pushing air aside with the ball and the heavier stuff that you're pushing the ball through, the more force required."
-- Professor Emeritus of Physics Robert Adair about how the atmosphere near Seattle's Safeco Park affects hitters, "Seattle Mariners' New Home Tough on Hitters," The Associated Press State & Local Wire, Oct. 4, 2000.
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"In this case the Palestinians have been looking for an occasion to launch into their usual stone-throwing riots."
-- Visiting lecturer in political science Charles Hill, "Bloodshed Worries Area Arabs, Jews," New Haven Register, Oct. 3, 2000.
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"[Research at Umm el-Marra] contributed emphatically to the perception and body of data indicating that in the late third millennium B.C., the accumulation of agricultural wealth had spread into northern and western Syria, and these regions were independently generating very wealthy and highly stratified societies."
-- Professor of Near Eastern Languages/Civilizations Harvey Weiss, "Dazzling Tomb Found in Syria Leaves Archaeologists Puzzled," The New York Times on the Web, Oct. 3, 2000.
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"People who exercise in search of the perfect body are doomed to failure. But if they're looking to become healthier, happier, more energetic and better able to function ... then exercise can deliver."
-- Director of the Center for Eating and Weight Disorders Kelly Brownell, "Bodyworks," The Washington Post, Oct. 3, 2000.
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"What's important about headaches is to keep a headache diary to identify stress factors or triggers. For migraines there's certain foods and sleep patterns (either too much or too little sleep) that are clearly triggers."
-- Associate research scientist (neurology) Dr. Edward Novotny, "I Can't Play Right Now, I Have a Headache," Connecticut Post, Oct. 5, 2000.
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"American playwrights like myself have really found their nurturing outside of New York theater in most respects. Regional theater has provided the laboratory for so many writers. It's no longer a New York-centric theater. An American play on Broadway has become a very arcane thought. We think of spectacle and musicals when we think of Broadway. A generation or two ago, Broadway was the showcase for American dramatists."
-- Lecturer in English & Theater Studies Donald Margulies, "Margulies Sees Pulitzer as Career-Affirming Prize," The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Oct. 1, 2000.
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"Just knowing that a fund is a large capitalization growth fund, or a small capitalization value fund, or an international stock fund largely explains its performance."
-- Professor of the Practice of Finance Roger Ibbotson, "Investor's Eye Column," Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Oct. 1, 2000.
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"If any realm exists in which [Congress] can be autonomous and consequential, it is in the realm of investigation."
-- Sterling Professor of Political Science David Mayhew, "Gridlocked, Congress Turns to Bully Pulpit," The Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 2, 2000.
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"Whenever you make a prediction, you're giving your best guess, but you don't have any guarantee your best guess is going to be right."
-- School of Management assistant professor Meghan Busse about accurately calculating the number of medals the United States would win in the Olympics, "Profs Get the Gold for Olympic Medal Predictions," New Haven Register, Oct. 3, 2000.
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